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Sale!Acres,E SirsfieldTho Exodus to Liberia.Tho Liberia fever took hold of some thousands of I)tucks down in South Carolina very suddenly tho other dry. U was probably ono of those sudden impulses which sometimes sway largo hmsses of ignorant poop In. Somebody had been talking up the advantages of Liberia.It hud boon pictured as a bind teeming with gold, cotton mid ovory do-si ruble thing. Rmigration agencies wore established and tho colored churches used to lie Ip on the suhcinn. Tun or fifteen thousand blacks assembled in Charles ton on tho ‘lth of July, drawn tugethur by their interest in this immigration project, it has been evident enough for so mo time that the colored population of tho South wore more or less disappointed with tho result of freedom. They are enfranchised it is true. Hut their “forty acres of land and it inulo” they have not real ized, and never will unless they work for them. The black has been ex [ice ting too much. Idleness docs not insure thrift. Ho must now “ work out his salvation” or die His lot is 110 worsts tlinn that of millions of while laborers who arc toiling for homes and who are amassing small for til nes.The black limits ns wo find him at tho South, don't wnuL mu oh of n liomu. A hut. and a small garden patch sutViccs. If Ini can get this niul a few days’ work, he don’t ns-pirn to much moroi .fn so mu partsof I ho South I ho negro has a hard time. IIu is poor, shiftless iiud hungry, and auvo in his nominal freedom he is not much belter olf d ■£ ry-Fnilhtm l*° wtls *** slavery. Hetty crimes Increase. lie gets into the jail utul penitentiary, not hecausulic is maliciously had, hill because lie had nil her steal than starand Canal,Profits on SnAn acquaintance days ago—*‘ Thera by small farmers ir taint is high; it) it. or* with large fnrin itrd, who can inal pay.”. While it i many small far men thins of the conn ends moot one y there nvo ft great mi this, and more; the fair pro lit for their always tho largest! tho most money or who realize tho their business. It owners of surnU those farms rcumin haps more so for vested, than man farms are to their it is a question \vh men on small farm ope rations with ji do not realize umi amount invested I owners of large fm of carrying on n i self, no light burd this, other expe which occur in tl of farming purtmi est on a fair valmi orty, arc added, profit on well-innr will generally, v, better showing.Hut there are n who do not imik port unities, and t much of the com; cess in farming, yield as abundant and tho crops in o ily as limy ought stock inuturo slov ready for market us much us that of a large fiiriii. need not expect Ills wide-awake the quantity perDOLLARS3.m: S:Dne-third inIB-third inor evenwork wlmn it is distasteful. This is line phase of his condition; not the best one, it is true, because wo Iiud him ongor to learn, mid most ofall, that his children should be cdu- ......^.........^ ( _calud. When be became eufran-1 hpH crops, ‘'or v; lehised there was lio tangible inhor- tn H,,U, mi\om Jl0jiliincc. He was not obliged to .....! work for bis old master, but bo I must work for somebody or starve.Technical freedom did not clothe him, did not furnish him corn and bacon, mid did not carry with it the ;:ov cted forty a crus of laud and a mule.When there fore i be natural wealth of Liberia was set before him, llio imagination of the colored man took lire. 'Ibis, after all, might be the paradise for which he had been lucking. Hero the “good Lord” would provide everything for him, and he could bask under palm trees and live a life of dreamy indolence, wauling nothing. How fifty or a hundred thou sand blacks could go to Liberia iu u year, and that with no money of their own.its.i Lands.[ ATEfor SaleHealthyCondition forwhich even the negro mind has not solved. In former times the Colonization Society had u mild sort of philanthropy by which they mm I one or two uurgocs of lVcmdmen annually to Africa. JlacLed ua ulimd of poultice to draw off the inflammation of shivery. Hut tho Colonization Society are not now very active in the business of shipping black men hack to Africa.Nor is it likely uny better fate would await them in that country. Thu negro uniat work out his salvation right wlierci he is, or,go to the wall. It has cost sumo of the Imst blood of the nation to sot him (roo. Thu Federal Constitution has been amended for his protection. His labor is reasonably productive where 1m works faith/ully; arid his peculiar hardship:} are such as lie must now mitigate for himself. The more Intelligent, he becomes ami the more noporLy lie acquires by bis own inn (fob industry, the more ho will ho respected. A great deal of secular missionary work needs to be done at the Mouth',* The negro must tic taught that industry is a virtue ; that ho must cense to he an idler and a vagrant, must .have something of tho pride of race, must bo able to point to prosperous homes, to honesty, sobriety and intelligence fiH the basis of solid character. Jf ho Cannot live in the Mouth and prosper, where ho is a citizen, whero tho climate is favorable, and whore Ids labor is iu good demand, he will make poor head wav auywhuro else. Liberia is no pa rad iso, but a poor struggling colony wlmro tho black man will find the law of tho survival of tho. fittest as much iu force as in any other part of tlio world.— l'\ Jiulletiii, July %5ih.nmro than blind ago men t of his h expect to obtain price for what farming upon a 1 if it is to bo nun bo conducted wi ring tho most “\Y hat is worth' doing well,” is a with peculiar foi muko the bush farmer’s labors r intelligence and portion as these duavorH will Ida the history of nl ways wifi he i progress which that with Hu I agriculture is du !s a problem miter prise \fused into it, ar for us all. 1 f“v best results in monls of rural keep abreast wi “hift” iiT to sac vantage mid, r large farms and ieism and old p ods must give processes and in order to inc aero and lesson tion of crops; in mostic animals profits with the Tho small fm pnari countries may well chaMc Id Rugland, F lands that Have liration for in yield enormous as when iu thci nutrition this fn possible to do i of acres. Hell soil, hotter boci more care will profits of fur ini Western Kurh|KiciiAitn Mland, 111., thin govern storms phenomena co positions of fck a groat numb cm cos, notably wich Islands iu and Oregon c tho hotweathc cent storms c that the poaiti thoao tiuios coi“.John,” asked a doctor of tho apothecary’s boy, “did Mrs. Groen got tho medicine 1 ordered? ”1 guess so,’* replied John, “ for 1 sawRome very n going on in th Vicksburg and March SlUd, 1 tho formar oi
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Southern Californian and Kern Weekly Courier
Bakersfield, California, US
Thu, Aug 02, 1877
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